
UK banks blocked from cyber AI tool Mythos get offer from rival OpenAI
Nine banks have been offered access to GPT 5.5 Cyber, as fierce rival Anthropic has blocked previews of its tool.
MONDAY, 15 JUNE 2026, 09:24

Nine banks have been offered access to GPT 5.5 Cyber, as fierce rival Anthropic has blocked previews of its tool.

Three coins, three very different ways to read the market. The latest Ethereum news is all about the order book, where crowded short bets sit on a trap door and quieter buyers wait underneath. The Toncoin price prediction reads off the chart instead, where a clean retest has analysts drawing a line of higher targets. […]

Pat Brogan preparing to walk his daughter down the aisle after trial of treatment designed to stop disease from hiding
• Smart drug that strips cancer cells of ‘invisibility cloak’ can shrink tumours by 30%, trial shows
One of the first patients to benefit from a pioneering smart drug that appears to melt away the “invisibility cloak” that can shield cancer cells from treatment is Pat...

Experimental tablet produces encouraging results in patients with world’s most common forms of disease
• ‘I was getting ready to say goodbye’: patient’s hope after smart drug success
A smart drug that stops cancer cells “hiding” from treatment can shrink tumours by at least 30% in six of the world’s most common forms of the disease, early trial results show.
While immunotherapy treatments have...
The state became the first to sue the ChatGPT maker over claims that its technology posed a risk to children and that the company had failed to warn the public of dangers.

Anthropic has confidentially filed for an IPO, teeing up what could become a watershed moment for in the AI frenzy.
The artificial intelligence company has seen explosive growth over the last year thanks largely to new technology that can automatically write computer code.

From today, 1 June 2026, all travellers crossing South Africa’s borders must submit an online customs declaration and declare any foreign-registered vehicles they bring into the country. This launch of the South African Revenue Service’s (SARS) new digital Traveller Declaration System, together with stepped-up education of customs rules at every port of entry, marks a […]

Ottawa, Ontario – Kyzenn today announced the release of a marketplace growth framework designed to help consumer brands improve operational efficiency, traffic quality, and performance measurement across Amazon and other retail media environments. The framework addresses a growing challenge for e-commerce brands as advertising costs rise, attribution becomes more complex, and marketplace...

Crypto has a strange habit of bringing back stories the market had already written off. Zcash was supposed to be a footnote, a privacy coin left over from a previous cycle, technically solid but commercially forgotten, drifting quietly while everyone chased AI tokens and modular blockchains. Then it blew past $600, and the conversation changed […]
Tech industry layoffs are accelerating, and executives have been quick to say it’s because their companies are doing more with artificial intelligence, even when there may be more to it.
Box, a Silicon Valley software maker, expects to have more employees, not fewer, as it hires A.I. architects, A.I. solutions managers and other new A.I.-related positions.
An analysis of six years of procurement records suggests that the People’s Liberation Army has openly tried to acquire restricted U.S. technology.

People from Delaware to Montreal reported either hearing loud booms or seeing the fireball in the sky over weekend
A meteor over Massachusetts during the weekend ultimately prompted reports of booms and sightings across New England into Canada.
The American Meteor Society said that the meteor in question was about 3ft (1 meter) wide as it entered the atmosphere around the New Hampshire border...

The Wi-Fi 8 standard trades the gigabit race for reliability – and Icasa’s new spectrum rules make it matter locally.

South Africa’s banks have built thriving mobile businesses on phone numbers and network identities they don’t control.

A sharp cut to the price of diesel should help ease cost pressures across freight, technology and e-commerce.

South Africans are suddenly happy with their mobile networks. Or at least, they are happy enough not to leave. Despite rising data prices and lingering frustration with customer service, millions of people are choosing to stay with Vodacom, MTN, Telkom, and Cell C. The days of mass “number porting” — switching networks while keeping the […]
New research examines how a Chinese company struggled to develop its predictive surveillance technology while U.S. restrictions were in place.

Seasonal wardens and netted fences are helping protect the rare ground-nesting birds that arrive each spring on the UK’s shores
On Ross Sands in Northumberland, a little tern has caught sight of a group of people and is sprinting across the beach. “It wants us to follow it,” says Andrew Craggs, senior manager at Lindisfarne national nature reserve. “It’s a diversionary thing – it’s...

Bonnie has two days to get from south London to her grandparents’ house in Cornwall before lockdown in this super low budget British comedy
No offence to any Clives reading, but the intentionally naff title of this film does not inspire confidence – and turns out to be indicative of the cheerful ridiculousness of this super low budget British comedy. It is about a trio of twentysomethings on...